t's Spotify! It's on your TV! It's from Boxee! Spotify is now going TV-ready with a new Spotify Boxee app. It'll let Spotify users access their Spotify accounts on their TV in one of two ways: using a computer that's connected to the TV and uses the Boxee app, or the infamous Boxee box.

"Adding Spotify’s huge music catalogue to a Boxee Box with a Premium subscription costs less than a cup of coffee per week (9.99/month $, € or £). Of course anyone can try the service on their computer for free (with a few ads) or for 4.99/month without ads using an Unlimited account," reads the announcement from Boxee.

In August, Grooveshark got its groove on with Boxee, and Pandora Radio and Last.FM are on Boxee as well. It's a free service that finds TV shows and movies on the web them and allows you to experience them on your TV. The Spotify Boxee app will only let users listen to existing items on their Spotify account, not create new content, so making new Spotify playlists on Boxee is out, at least for now.

“There’s bound to be people who aren’t as happy that you can’t edit playlists or do searches on the app. But, we really wanted to train them to realize that they shouldn’t be doing that stuff on their TV anyways,” said Boxee VP of Marketing Andrew Kippen when speaking to VentureBeat.

The recent Spotify Facebook Music partnership has opened new inroads for Spotify after their U.S. launch earlier this Summer, which led to an app update so that Facebook users can hide what they're listening to. They're calling it the Spotify "Private Listening"mode, and its in response to the recent blow up over too much sharing on Facebook and Spotify. Spotify also has 250,000 paying users in the U.S., as was announced by Reuters.

Digster.FM has expanded to social music discovery service Rdio. Digster already includes social media support for Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Google, so a Digster Rdio app seems like an inevitable thing, given Rdio's social media bent. The only streaming music service Digster used before this was Spotify, and it contains Spotify playlists from both UMG employees and artist-curated playlists. Now Rdio users can get in on the action as well.

"Rdio's innovation and recognition as a leader in social music makes it a perfect fit for Digster," said Mitch Rotter, Senior Vice President, Marketing & Product Development at Digster.

Rdio was developed by the creators of Kazaa  and Skype, which are Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström. Rdio has licensing with all four major record labels and multiple indie labels, with social media tools to share music. Rdio prices run $9.99 for mobile and Web access, and Web access is  $4.99 per month, with both streaming and offline listening and a library of over 12 million songs. The Rdio name is a combination of the words radio and audio, pronounced r-dee-o.

Google wants to transition Google Music into a MP3 music store that will launch this year, taking on the Amazon MP3 Store and iTunes for paid MP3 music downloads. The Google Music Beta rolled out in the Spring, but was a music service, not a MP3 store. Now the Google music player seems destined to become a full-fledged MP3 store, and Google is in talks with major labels over licensing according to the NY Times.

The San Fransisco Chronicle backs this up also, saying that they've been in touch with an independent record label that has also been informed of a Google Music Store that will launch sometime this year.

So at this point, it will be two things: a cloud-based Google music manager and a Google mp3 store, with both components making a Google Music experience whole. We can also hope for tight integration with its the Chrome operating system and Android. The upcoming Android ICS Launch could announce more Ice Cream Sandwich features and the much talked about Nexus-branded handset, also called Nexus Prime or Galaxy Nexus.

The past few weeks, Google has been quietly unfolding new parts of Google Music -- last week the Google Music 4 app for Android leaked, revealing for a time the shiny new Google Music app (version 4.0.1). In September, a soft launch of the Google Music iOS app for iPad and iPhone was put online at http://music.google.com/.

We originally heard about the Google Music service at Google's annual I/O conference in San Francisco back in May, when they announced it as the Google Music Beta. Details were scarce, other than the unveiling the cloud-based music manager that's online now. It stores up to 20,000 MP3 tracks in Google's Cloud storage service so that users can listen to songs with mobile devices like the iPhone, iPad, or Android tablets and phones. Reports of the Google mp3 music store have been surfacing since last year, so at this point it's hard to tell if this time is the real time. Then again, we said that about Apple and iTunes in the Cloud, and that arrived.

Just what you've been waiting for ... now you can give the gift of Pandora Radio. They're offering gift cards under the name of Pandora One Gifts, so that you people can get a free year of Pandora Premium version of Pandora internet radio. They're available through Target and are going for $36.

Not that Pandora Radio is all about the "gift" holidays, they're also rolling out something a little more pagan with "Halloween Themed" radio stations

A lot of what Apple announced yesterday in the Cupertino love-in was already understood before the announcement, but lets revisit what it means in terms of your iCloud music experience now that the details have been declared.

You'll be able to listen to your music anywhere, by either 1) streaming it through an internet connection or 2) choosing to keep a group of files permanently downloaded to your computer or portable device.

Pandora Radio is now facing a privacy lawsuit over the online exposure of Michigan Pandora users listening history. The Pandora lawsuit was filed in California (because Pandora is registered there), and claims that Pandora violated the privacy of Michigan users when they allowed access to their profile pages, and thus information about their listening habits.

The Pandora Radio redesign just launched at the end of last month, just before the big Facebook Music launch.

Rhapsody music service has bought Napster, in a move to boost its subscriber count. Napster has been fairly quiet this Summer, and even though Pandora, Spotify, MOG, Rdio and the rest have all been bathing in their Facebook magnificence, Napster has been quiet. Now we know why.